Re: [ossig] (Fwd) STI News: Firm discovers good IT help hard to find

[Vincent Lee <leehongfay@yahoo.com>]

hi.. imho
Grades are too important. I think as long as one
strikes a balance to obtain the grades that they need
to bring them closer to their targets, it is OK to
strive hard for the grades.  Hence, if one would like
to be a grass cutter, grades are irrelevant, if one
has the passion to be a doctor, grades will be
important.
Hence, agree the importance of doing what we like to
do  and can do best.

On another note, school exams could be made fun like
computer games. When a person plays computer games, he
needs to learn the rules, he needs to understand the
concept, the targets, he needs to be quick, efficient,
he needs to practise etc... But of course, school
syllabus don't have the multimedia part of the
computers games...  As playing the school examination
games GENERALLY brings more good than harm.. it is OK
to play it hard, and play it well.

Cheers
Vincent






 --- Colin Charles  <byte@aeon.com.my> wrote: > On 16
Dec 2002 at 1:10, Teoh Eng Sin wrote:
> 
> > Personal Note:  I did receive a private mail from
> someone on the list
> > that I will see this issue differently if I had
> kids of my own.  Maybe
> > when I do have kids of my own,  I hope I will have
> the courage (and
> > information ) to let them know that super grades
> is not the holy grail
> > of education (and life).
> 
> I'm actually going to support Eng Sin on this one.
> 
> My parents generally never really did say good
> grades were too 
> important. Yes, they get thrilled when I did get
> good grades, and 
> when I did falter on occasion, they did tell me to
> try harder next 
> time. There was no grilling that good grades would
> make me any 
> better.
> 
> The general idea that I was taught was that: do what
> you want to do, 
> and be the best at what you do. So if for example, I
> wanted to be a 
> grass cutter, I should strive to be the most
> efficient grass cutter 
> and do my job really well (thats the analogy that I
> was given to as a 
> child).
> 
> Today I'm finally of age to make decisions on my
> own, and its true, I 
> don't think that grades are the ultimate be all and
> end all. I can be 
> fairly successful in what I do, if I myself take the
> drive and 
> initiative to do it well.
> 
> Heck, at Uni, I notice half the students there
> majoring in what they 
> call Computer Science not doing a heck of a good
> job. They may want 
> the good grades, but how do they achieve it? Copying
> from those that 
> want to strive. And the Asian system of mugging
> generally helps them 
> when it comes to an examination. What do you get
> upon graduation? 
> Good grades yes, but a bunch of morons running lose
> in IT firms. I 
> have heard heaps of employers telling me about this.
> 
> Which brings me back to supporting what Eng Sin says
> - do you really 
> need good grades to get up there? Probably not. Am I
> better off that 
> I don't intend on striving for super good grades,
> but if I do get it, 
> I'm satisfied, because while keeping the grade, I
> had a great social 
> life, as well as learnt things that were out of the
> scope of my 
> course? Thats for you to decide - as my personal
> opinion is that I'm 
> better off.
> 
> Regards...
> 
> P/S: on a personal note, grades have been doing
> nicely in the 
> education arena. So has my social life, and my
> education it terms of 
> things that are out of scope of my course. Maybe I'm
> lucky in a way.
> 
> P/S^2: I said "Asian system of mugging" because that
> is the general 
> impression I get from all the SPM graduates and even
> folk down in 
> Singapore for instance. I graduated from an
> International School in 
> Kuala Lumpur, so I did the O Level Examinations, and
> we were *never* 
> encouraged to mug. Kind of bad in a way, since I
> never mastered the 
> skill of being a sponge ;) But being a sponge is a
> double-edged 
> sword.
> 
> 'nuff rambling...
> 
> --
> Colin Charles, byte@aeon.com.my
> http://www.bytebot.net/
> 
> 
>
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